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I'll use a quote from a more famous web site which eloquently sums up what I've been saying to people ever since I read The Design of Everyday Things (that jerk Don Norman has ruined countless people's lives! We were better off not knowing). The quote is, "It doesn't make any difference why it was f***ed up. It just doesn't. That's not the future of content delivery, it's the future of f***ing pissing me off." Seconded by a quote from one of GameSpot's software reviews: "It's as bad as your mind will allow you to comprehend."
| We've Moved | the whining over to Blogspot (not that we like it) | |
| why, Obfusco itself | is apocryphal doo doo for not following good standards. | |
| General indictments | of so-called human progress. | |
| Musée d'un Meilleur Passé | let us not forget the past, or believe coporate revision thereof. | |
| PayPal | usability from hell. | |
| Navigator/Mozilla/Firebird | bwa ha ha ha ha, whoo, ha ha, yeah! sheesh. | |
| Thunderbird | is also killing me, so I went back to OE. | |
| eBay | shows that content, certainly not interface, is king. | |
| Apple | lesser of two evils? | |
| Microsoft | all fun, warm and fuzzy things! | |
| Emacs | has so much cool stuff, and yet so much is utterly broken. | |
| Programming Languages | are dumb. | |
| Game designers | need some serious help. | |
| XML Spy | editor, like, for XML, capiche? | |
| XML parsing | just in general. you know, the wave of the future, today! | |
| GLOBEtrack | to be steadfastly avoided. no, really. | |
| Design Contiuum, Inc | an actual design firm whose own site kinda sucked. | |
| MP3 | that stuff is really cool, but damn the apps are cheesy! WinAmp sucks so much hair off of my buttocks! | |
| Caltrain | kills me. | |
| Plenty more | where those came from. | |
| Negative Suck | places that I didn't have lots of trouble with. | |
| Boycott | companies and groups that suck. | |
| David Futrelle | seems to get the point. | |
| Scott Berkun | also seems clueful. | |
| Stuart Jeffries | makes an argument I can get behind, that we're drowning in the wrong technology. | |
| Mark Hurst | stresses the big picture. | |
| More | gripers. | |
| Cursing | so beware. | |